Art Therapy Professionals

News for Art Therapy professionals:
 

Organisational Consultancy - an Art Therapy Approach

The BAAT Council has agreed to support a pilot project which aims to develop a new and distinct method of working with teams and organisations.

The ABC of Engaging with Commissioning for Arts Therapists:

Conference 17th March 2008: Report, presentations, notes from children and adults working groups and tool kit
 

Art Therapists working with children

New Document from the DH for Art Therapists working with Children: Building Brighter Futures: Next Steps for the Children's Workforce >> (pdf) will open in new window).

ATPRN

Art Therapy Practice Research Network

Art Therapy Practice Research Network Symposium: Art-Based research – New Ways of Evidencing our Practice - 4th July 2008.

Art Therapy Practice Research Network Research archives now available to BAAT members >>

Short Courses for Art Therapists

Details of BAAT training courses and workshops

These reports are in .pdf format. Most computers will have an Adobe Acrobat reader already installed. Click on the link to open the report in a new browser window or right click and download to save to a location on your computer. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat reader on your computer you can download it from here >>.

A few useful reports

Psychiatry, Psychological Therapies for Schizophrenia and Training >>

A very good report coordinated by Sally Weston for BAAT on Arts Therapies and Stroke Strategy. This report comes with case studies and is a exemplary template on how art therapists can contribute to national strategies:

• Arts Therapies and Stroke Strategy >>
• AHPF Stroke Strategy Jan 2007 >>
• Provision of psychological and emotional support/treatment for stroke patients >>
• Case Study >>
• ATOLL - Stroke Strategy >>

'AHPs COUNT', a survey of Allied Health Professions in Scotland that included arts therapists >>

HPC in Focus: 'Useful advice from HPC about advertising yourself' >>
 

KSF

Knowledge & Skills Framework update >>

BAAT members area

There is a section of the web specifically for BAAT members. See more details..
 

BAAT guidance on the Agenda for Change

Further guidelines and documents to download

Sample job descriptions and person specification documents

Inscape - the Journal of the British Association of Art Therapists

Details of current issue are now on the web site of the publisher Taylor and Francis. You can also order back-issues or place a subscription on the Taylor and Francis site. (BAAT members get Inscape included in their membership package and can also access Inscape content on-line)

Details of some previous issues are available on the BAAT site.